http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/standards.html

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/standardsreview/

http://nylearns.org/

"What students should know and be able to do to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital world …”
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Research and Information Fluency
  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
  • Digital Citizenshipexternal image Resized_small_NETSS_graphic_web.jpg
  • Technology Operations and Concepts

NETS for Students 2007
NETS for Students 1998





PBL

Alabama Project Resources on PBL

CONTENT

Thinkfinity

Route21

TeachNet


The Humanities
EDSITEment
History

Language Arts
ReadWriteThink
NCTE-Literacy in 21st Century

The ARTs
ArtsEdge


Geography
Xpeditions

Economics
EconEdlink


Mathematics
Illuminations


Adult and Family Literacy
Literacy Network

Science
Science Netlinks


Web 2.0 Tools
go2web20


Other Great Resources for Content

A to Z Teacher Stuff
atozteacherstuff.com/Tips/index.shtml
AOL @ School
www.aolatschool.com
Apple Learning Interchange
ali.apple.com
Beginning Teacher's Toolbox
www.inspiringteachers.com
Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Busy Teachers’ WebSite K-12
www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt
Children’s Television Workshop
www.ctw.org
Classroom Connect
www.classroom.com
CT Network State Civics Toolbox.
www.ctn.state.ct.us/education.asp
DiscoverySchool.com
school.discovery.com
Education Majors & Student Teachers
www.iloveteaching.com/steacher/index.htm
Education Oasis
www.educationoasis.com
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
www.enc.org/weblinks
FieldTrip.com - Connecticut
www.fieldtrip.com/ct/index_ct.htm
4 Teachers
www.4teachers.org
Gateway to Educational Materials
thegateway.org
GLOBE Program
www.globe.gov
Just 4 Teachers
expage.com/just4teachers
MIT Open CourseWare
ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
My Wonderful World
www.mywonderfulworld.org
NASA Explores
www.nasaexplores.com
National Geographic Online
www.nationalgeographic.com
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
www.oceanslive.org/portal
National Wildlife Foundation
www.nwf.org
Numb3rs...math from the TV show
www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/ti
PBS Teacher Source
www.pbs.org/teachersource
Scholastic
teacher.scholastic.com
teAchnology
http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/ice_breakers/
Teachers Domain
http://www.teachersdomain.org/tdhome.html
Teacher Mailring Center
teachers.net/mailrings
Teachers Net
www.teachers.net
TeachersNet Lesson Bank
www.teachers.net/lessons
Teaching Johnny to Write by Sharon Heil
www.TeachingJohnnyToWrite.com
Teacher Vision
www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/
The Exploratorium
www.exploratorium.edu



Needs Assessment/Pretest

Here are some examples of free or inexpensive online survey Web sites:
  • Survey Monkey
    www.surveymonkey.com
    This survey site enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. It has a free basic service that provides most of the features a teacher would need to survey students.
  • Pollcat
    www.pollcat.com
    The free version of Pollcat is called Pollcat Lite. It provides an easy-to-learn interface to allow you to get your survey on the Web quickly. You can view/download survey summary reports, receive automatic e-mail notifications with your survey summary reports, and review/download each of the individual survey responses.
  • Web Surveyor
    www.websurveyor.com/free-survey-tools.asp
    Here, you'll find a link to RSVME, a free application that integrates with Microsoft Outlook and other e-mail packages to make obtaining feedback from people a snap. You can quickly and easily put together a questionnaire on any subject.
  • Profiler Pro
    www.profilerpro.com
    This comprehensive survey tool was developed to help K–16 educators measure both the effect of integrating new technology into learning environments and the effect of comprehensive staff development programs.

Assessment

A number of resources are available that help teachers and even students create rubrics. The following are a few of the Web sites dedicated to providing and designing rubrics. Explore these sites to create a multitude of rubric types.
  • Rubrics for Web Lessons
    http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/rubrics/weblessons.htm
    This site has a comprehensive discussion of rubric design for Web lessons and other topics. It also includes a generic rubric template and general guidelines.
  • RubiStar
    http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
    This is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that you can print and use for many typical lessons. It also provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. You can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit your own objectives.
  • Landmark Project Rubric Machine
    www.landmark-project.com/rubric_builder/index.php
    This “collaborative rubric toolkit” enables teachers to build effective assessment rubrics and to make them available over the Internet. Many teacher-designed rubrics are available.
  • TeAchnology Web Portal for Educators
    www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics
    A number of well-designed rubrics are available for free on this site. After generating your rubric, you can select all, copy, and paste everything into a new word-processing document. Membership is not required to generate rubrics.
  • Northwest Regional Education Laboratory: Science Inquiry Model
    www.nwrel.org/msec/science_inq/guides.html
    The rubrics available at this site (here, they are called scoring guides) help teachers assess students' performance of the essential traits of science inquiry: connecting, designing, investigating, and constructing meaning. The scoring guides define these traits and provide descriptive criteria for student performance, enabling teachers to give students precise and useful feedback as well as to inform their instructional objectives.
Ready to build a rubric from your learning objectives? Remember, the project objectives require the students to create and use a digital poster. For this example, go to RubiStar (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/), scroll down to the Create a Rubric section, and choose Products.